Johann Adolph Hasse (Composer)
Born: 25th March 1699, Germany
Died: 16th December 1783, Venice
Nationality: German
Johann Adolph Hasse was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a considerable quantity of sacred music. Married to soprano Faustina Bordoni and a great friend of librettist Pietro Metastasio, whose libretti he frequently set, Hasse was a pivotal figure in the development of opera seria and 18th-century music.
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Orchestral
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Popular Works: Hasse, J A
- Alma Redemptoris Mater (2)
- Alta nubes illustrata (3)
- Artaserse (6)
- Artaserse (1730 Venice version) (2)
- Cadrà fra poco in cenere (from Didone abbandonata) (2)
- Chiama mi pur cosi (from Didone abbandonata) (2)
- Cleofide (3)
- Concerto for flute, strings and basso continuo in G major (3)
- Dei di Roma, ah perdonate! (from Il Trionfo di Clelia) (2)
- Fuga e Grave in G minor (3)
- Keyboard Sonata in G (2)
- Leon ch'errando vada (from Didone abbandonata) (2)
- Mandolin Concerto in G (4)
- Marc’ Antonio e Cleopatra (3)
- Mass in D Minor (3)
- Miserere (3)
- Miserere in C minor (9)
- Miserere in D minor (4)
- Missa ultima in G minor (3)
- Morte, col fiero aspetto (from Antonio e cleopatra) (6)
- Oh Dio! Partir conviene (2)
- Passa di pena in pena - Cantata per traversiere e contralto (2)
- Perdono, amata Nice...Bei labbri, che Amore (from La Gelosia) (3)
- Polonaise in G Major (BWV Anh. 130) (2)
- Prelude in B flat major (2)
- Recorder Sonata in B flat major, 'Cantata' (4)
- Regina coeli in D major (3)
- Requiem in C major (3)
- Requiem in E flat (3)
- Salve Regina in A major (4)
- Siam navi all'onde algenti (from L'Olimpiade) (2)
- Signor la tua Speranza… A Dio trono, impero a Dio (from Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra) (2)
- Sinfonia Op. 3 No. 3 (2)
- Solca il mar (from Tigrane) (2)
- Son reo, son reo...Giura il nocchier che al mare (from La Gelosia) (3)
- Sonata for Flute and Basso Continuo in D Minor, Op. 1 No. 11 (2)
- Tambourin (2)
- Te Deum in G major (4)
- Toccata and Fugue in G minor (2)
- Tu mi disarmi il fianco (from Didone abbandonata) (2)
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